Issue 142

Summer & Fall 2012

  • You are currently looking at the fifth issue of TriQuarterly Online, and it's a good one. We're very excited to feature recordings of some of our poets reading their work. John Bresland was kind enough to curate another set of video essays for us, each one constructed around a single image. You'll also find the work of poets Ghalib and Yang Zi translated from Urdu and Chinese, respectively, and we're proud to host three new poems from Sharon Olds. We have fresh creative nonfiction from the likes of Sven Birkerts, Monica Berlin, and Ander Monson, who also sends photos. Finally, this issue's fiction includes astronauts, Keats, and X-Men, among other things (but what else could you want, really?). We truly hope you enjoy this issue as much as we do. Send praise and grumblings to triquarterlyonline@northwestern.edu. --L.P.

    Managing Editor: Lydia Pudzianowski
    Faculty Advisor: Alice George
    Literary Editor: S.L. Wisenberg
    Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
    Media Architect: Harlan Wallach
    Technical Advisor: Alex Miner
    Social Media Editor: Ankur Thakkar
    Copy Editor: Ruth Goring
    Graduate Fellow: Ben Schacht

    Book Review Editor: Karen Zemanick
    Assistant Book Review Editor: Leigh Arber
    Chapbook Review Editor: Anthony Opal
    Fiction Editors: Matt Carmichael, Cathy Gao, Carrie Muehle, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran
    Nonfiction Editor: Sarah Hollenbeck
    Poetry Editor: Lana Rakhman
    Assistant Poetry Editor: Virginia Smith

    Staff: Rebecca Bald, Cathy Beres, Michelle Cabral, Patrick Allen Carberry, Bonnie Cauble, Jen Companik, Rachel Curry, Aaron DeLee, Jesse Eagle, Vincent Francone, Andrew Galligan, Barbara Ghoshal, Yliana Gonzalez, Eric Grawe, Betsy Haberl, Ish Harris-Wolff, Noelle Havens, Elizabeth Herbert, Gretchen Kalwinski, Nath Jones, Jen Lawrence, Joyce Lee, Eldad Malamuth, Carrie Muehle, Tien (Mimi) Nguyen, Amber Peckham, Cory Phare, C. Russell Price, Jenna Rabideaux, Nate Renie, Mark Rentfro, Ross Ritchell, Paula Root, Dan Schuld, Michi Smith, Megan Marie Sullivan, Adam Talaski, Myra Thompson, Alisa Ungar-Sargon

Fiction Anthony Tognazzini Fiction Anthony Tognazzini

The Treehouse

I don’t yet know what this is about, or if there’s a master plan, but since I am by nature romantic, I’m willing to believe one exists. I trust something good—ennobling even—will come of this. John Keats said, “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter,” and I’d like to believe that’s true.

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Fiction Travis Kurowski Fiction Travis Kurowski

The Entire City

1. Plaster

A few months ago, my father died.

In 1986, when he was thirty-two years old—the year I turned four—my father, Dr. John Mayers, published his University of Portland doctoral dissertation, The Privacy of Other Places, with a small press in North Carolina.

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Fiction Bryan Hurt Fiction Bryan Hurt

The Fourth Man

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don’t care.

Pablo Picasso, on news of the first moon landing, quoted in the New York Times, July 21, 1969

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